N2483
Name: Moody Blue
Design: Mark 14
Designer: Ian Proctor
Year built: 1970
Build type: Professional
Builder: Chippendale
Construction: Clinker
Hull type: Single Bottom
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ntoa 28-Feb-2007 |
The life of N2483 Moody Blue. Design: Mark 14, designed by: Ian Proctor in 1966 Original boat name: Tackspayer. |
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David White 30-May-2007 |
Originally "Tackspayer", owned by Ken Goddard at Trent Valley |
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Ken Goddard 20-Nov-2007 |
Ken Goddard writes: I bought this boat new in 1970 from Chippendale (rather than my local boat builder Wyche & Coppock) and named her as "Tackspayer", a pun like many of my other boats. She was built to Ian Proctor's Mk.14 design and my choice of this design was a mistake! The China Doll had been launched a year or two beforhand and I failed to recognise that it was a better design. The Mk.14 seemed to have no particular virtues and I remember the boat more for several occasions when I capsized to windward, although this may be more a result of inadequate sailing skills than a deficiency in design. One of these occasions was well out to sea when I was sailing in a Royal Dart Y.C. Regatta. A bit scary! I sold her in around 1973 to a girl at Whitefriars S.C. (Gloucs. or Wiltshire?). She renamed the boat Moody Blue and painted on top of the varnished hull accordingly. After a couple of years I heard no more of the boat. Ken Goddard N.2300 |
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